John Thiele's script is a quirky change from the usual Jam Handy fare, featuring an actor playing several versions of "Smith," explaining RCA HiFi sound to an off-camera voice.
It's a shame neither get screen credit, but the narrator is the former radio voice of Superman, Bud Collyer, who had just begun a run as host of "To Tell the Truth."
Charles Nasca is responsible for the 1950s modern living room sets.
The short ends with aerial footage of the Grand Canyon. Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite was to be heard underneath, but all you can hear on this footage is the sound of the film, with a few clicks and pops. At least it's not playing with someone yelling "Call for Philip Morris!" over top.

This film will be featured on my forthcoming podcast (RFETN Podcast 005). While researching the film and the missing stereo soundtrack at the end, I found on a certain video streaming site the recording mentioned sourced from vinyl. Listening to the different movements, I think I found the correct piece from Sunset. Using the link below with the time jump about 19 minutes and 39 seconds into the suite, it appears to match up very well:
https://youtu.be/IP5UJIcheSo?t=1179

I would guess the sound recording is still under copyright, so I suspect it cannot appear on archive.org together.

Love the period decor and furnishings, and the outsized enthusiasm for recorded sound by all concerned. The biggest problem I have with this film isn't the multiple-role acting by the talent-challenged Hugh Beaumont wannabe. It's the missing stereo music. Obviously this was meant as a sales demonstration film, with the actual stereo sound provided in the store during the silent sections. It would be great if RCA or UMG or whoever owns all this now could dig up or assemble a stereo-dubbed version, for posterity (and the archive).

I used this brilliant video resource in a few mashups for the viddy social media frameworks ;)

@llamapixel

Crazy Conductor
http://viddy.com/video/7a6cbafb-a206-44a7-b365-b65a169e38cb

Metal Machine
http://viddy.com/video/612c6c67-db26-49b1-9ba5-e769f34fea6c

Yes, the actor looks like "Bob" Dobbs, but this is a nice short film for audiophiles. They'll love all the retro stereo gear. The aerial shots of the Grand Canyon at the end are nice as well.

Cool - Herbert Von Karajan conducting!

While watching this I kept thinking to myself....imagine Trent Reznor sitting in his studio listening to Nine Inch Nails 5.1 digital Surround Sound mixes and going "Golly Gee! Doesn't this High Fidelity record sound just swell?"

I am going to create my own soundtrack for this...during the silent parts (like the Grand Canyon flyover) I am going to insert the most horrifying death metal known to man. This will be a real hit at parties!!

The REALLY hilarious thing, aside from the various Mr. Smiths and their ultimate 3-dimensional cube-ality (meaning to a modern "cool" person these characters are "beyond square") is that yes the actual film itself is in mono.

How ironic.

I rate this 5, mostly for the comedic value, but also as an interesting look back 45 years to the Cro-Magnon days of modern audio technology....

"Hi-Fi" those young whipper-snappers called it, and then came stereo, but it wasn't good enough for the marketers at RCA, so they called it "Orthophonic".

Beautiful color as the do-it-yourself audiophile explains sound and how it is recorded and reproduced. Of course, you don't need to do it yourself, you can buy it all from RCA - high tech for the home in finely crafted wood furniture. Wish I had the record to play for the final part of this.

While no doubt people are commenting on the filn from an esthetic and audio viewpoint, I wanna comment on great the film looks. About 5 or 6 Mr Smiths, all of which I believe are played by the same actor are all awed by the wonders of High Fidelity Sound stereos, all of which are in fab late 50's living rooms. Even the stereos themselves look groovy. After much technical talk, One of the Mr Smiths lets us listen to Hi-fi-2, all we here is nothing. But wait! In a novel trick, the audio for this segment was obviously to be heard from an outside source. I would've loved to be in a theater when this was tried out. This is reccomended!

This film was intended to be shown with an accompanying record, to be played at the middle and end of the film as a stereo demonstration; nearly all the dialogue is without bed music, and since most of it explains how recorded audio and hi-fi systems work, it's awesome for anyone looking to drop some golly-gee-audio-is-keen style quote chestnuts into their techno mixes or what have you. And yes, great stock footage of the Grand Canyon in a lengthy flyby at the end!

The last part of this movie presents beautiful color (and quite long) Grand Canyon aerial shots, perfect for editors !

excellent kitch demonstration for early developments in high fiedelity. amusing off screen naration and 60s living room design make this doc/ad essential for any sound enthusiast or vinyl junkie.

great sampling possibilities here